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  • London Cemeteries

    An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer

    by Hugh Meller, Brian Parsons ...
    London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each entry includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development and current state, and the names, dates and major achievements of any noteworthy people buried there. There are also chapters on the origins of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Land a Top-Paying Engraver set-up operators Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Parsons Brian ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Engraver set-up operators job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Dust to Ashes

    The Development of Cremation in England and Wales, 1874-2024

    by Brian Parsons, Peter C. Jupp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years later. The response by the public was cautious. Despite the provision of crematoria, by 1939, less than 4 percent of deaths were followed by ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Funerary Practices in England and Wales

    by Julie Rugg, Brian Parsons ...
    Series series Funerary International
    The Funerary International series comprises essential reference texts for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in funerary practices globally. Each book has a country or region specific focus, addressing a standard framework of questions to aid comparison.This book sets English and Welsh funerary practice in its wider legal, national and local governance framework, including ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century

    From Undertaker to Funeral Director

    by Brian Parsons ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
    The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organisational change and attempts to gain recognition as a professional service provider saw the role morph into that of ‘funeral director’.As the disposal of the dead increased in complexity ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

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  • Austerity Britain, 1945-1951

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series series Tales of a New Jerusalem
    As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II, and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an utterly original, and compellingly readable, account of the following six years, during which the country rebuilt itself. Kynaston's great genius is to chronicle the country's experience from bottom to top: ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Modernity Britain

    Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series Book 2 - Tales of a New Jerusalem
    Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals' Financial Times'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain ... It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Welfare State We're In

    by James Bartholomew ...
    The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family Britain, 1951-1957

    by David Kynaston ...
    Series series Tales of a New Jerusalem
    As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in ... Read more

    $27.29 USD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Life On Air

    A History of Radio Four

    by David Hendy ...
    Radio Four has been described as 'the greatest broadcasting channel in the world', the 'heartbeat of the BBC', a cultural icon of Britishness, and the voice of Middle England. Defined by its rich mix, encompassing everything from journalism and drama to comedy, quizzes, and short-stories, its programmes - such as Today,The Archers, Woman's Hour, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, Gardeners' ... Read more

    $21.99 USD